Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Add transparency support for LightmapGI Currently when baking lightmaps users have to choose between transparent objects casting shadows as if they were fully opaque, or not casting shadows at all. This has been a major limitation in both the quality of lightmap baking and the ergonomics of the lightmap baking workflow.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early Access, delivering the next-generation engine from Epic Games that will further propel the industry forward. UE5 is making it easier to develop expansive open worlds and provides developers with the GPU-accelerated tools to better animate characters and build audio pipelines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Is solving these problems enough for Godot to become a top AA / AAA game engine? Additionally, Godot 4.0 The answer is “it depends”.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It's a long read, so here's a table of contents to easily get to a specific section: New physically based 3D renderer. The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. As mentioned above, 3.0 has been 18 months in the making and is a huge release.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). RichTextLabel: Honor content marging when drawing font shadow ( GH-54054 ). Label: Fix valign with stylebox borders ( GH-50478 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). RichTextLabel: Honor content marging when drawing font shadow ( GH-54054 ). Label: Fix valign with stylebox borders ( GH-50478 ).

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